Title :
Wearable antennas in the vicinity of human body
Author :
Salonen, Pekka ; Rahmat-Samii, Yahya ; Kivikoski, Markku
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A wearable antenna can be defined as an antenna which is designed and meant for part of clothing. In this paper, we address the following issues: (i) textile antenna input-match performance in the vicinity of the human body; (ii) textile antenna radiation characteristics; (iii) power absorbed in the human body; and (iv) peak and averaged SAR over 1 g tissue at the 2.4 GHz ISM band. To our best knowledge, this paper presents the first in-depth results concerning the textile antenna performance in the vicinity of the human body. Numerical results with and without the presence of the human body are discussed in detail.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic wave absorption; fabrics; impedance matching; microstrip antennas; 1 g; 2.4 GHz; ISM band; antenna radiation characteristics; averaged tissue SAR; clothing antenna; human body absorbed power; human body models; human body vicinity antennas; peak tissue SAR; textile antenna input-match; wearable antennas; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Dipole antennas; Fabrics; Feeds; Humans; Microstrip antennas; Textiles; Torso; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8302-8
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2004.1329675
